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Bamboo pros and cons

Vendor: Atlassian

3.7 out of 5

22 reviews
77% willing to recommend

1,153 followers

Bamboo Pros review quotes

Solutions Architect at Infosysta

Mar 23, 2023

One of the significant benefits of Bamboo is its built-in support for numerous clients and the ability to tailor its capabilities to your specific requirements. This high level of customization enables you to create pipelines that are ideally suited to your needs, making it an invaluable tool for conducting advanced testing.

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RK

reviewer1198131

C.T.O at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

Nov 10, 2023

The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration.

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MS

Projects & Partnerships at ZENTITY a.s.

Feb 7, 2024

Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process.

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Head of Product at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Apr 7, 2022

The most useful feature of Bamboo is its integration with other solutions such as Jira and BitBucket, also offered by Atlassian. It is easier to use tools all provided by one vendor.

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DevOps Architect at EXL Services

Feb 16, 2022

In Bamboo, build and deployment have been segregated. The build plan and deployment plan are different. When comparing Bamboo to other solutions, the native feature you will not find in another tool, such as Jenkins. They have segregated the build and deployment plan. This means, building the application and deploying it are two separate parts in Bamboo, they have segregated it apart from the UI. This makes the tool a bit better compared to other tools.

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DevOps Engineer at Politecnico di Milano

Apr 5, 2023

The most valuable features of Bamboo are its performance and UI. Additionally, there are a lot of useful plugins, integration with other solutions, such as Bitbucket and Jira, and a helpful online community.

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Bharath Arakere

Devops consultant at Siemens Healthineers

Jan 29, 2020

The most valuable features are compiling and deployment.

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reviewer1897722

Software Developer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jun 19, 2024

We use Bamboo to automate all our test builds and deployments. It integrates with tools like the ReportPortal to help us check and evaluate processes. When we initiate commands, it automatically checks for scaling issues or failures related to new code. Based on these evaluations, it provides reports in the ReportPortal, helping us decide whether to implement changes.

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Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 26, 2021

It can do the CI pipeline well.

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LW

reviewer1256943

DevOps Engineer at Check Point Software Technologies

Dec 30, 2019

It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services.

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Bamboo Cons review quotes

Solutions Architect at Infosysta

Mar 23, 2023

One area that could be enhanced is the governance process, particularly with regard to building approvals and transitions between stages. In comparison to other solutions, such as Jira, which features a workflow that supports approval processes, this capability is not natively available in Bamboo. To implement this functionality, integration with other solutions, such as GSM may be necessary. Although some add-ons, such as Adaptavist ScriptRunner, are available in the market to circumvent this limitation, they may not offer the exact functionality needed. Therefore, there is certainly room for improvement in this area.

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RK

reviewer1198131

C.T.O at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

Nov 10, 2023

The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed.

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MS

Projects & Partnerships at ZENTITY a.s.

Feb 7, 2024

It can be challenging for someone new to the system or ecosystem to grasp, making it difficult to train new people and help them understand.

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Head of Product at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Apr 7, 2022

Scalability depends on the use case. If it is really a big customer with a lot of tests, it might not be a scalable option for them.

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DevOps Architect at EXL Services

Feb 16, 2022

Bamboo can improve by providing more with scripting, such as they have with Jenkins. Bamboo is more UI-driven at this time, Jenkins is going in that direction too.

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DevOps Engineer at Politecnico di Milano

Apr 5, 2023

Bamboo could improve by having compatibility with GitLab. It would be better to have this platform for deploying code and storing container registries. Bamboo does not have a container registry. Additionally, there could be more features added.

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Bharath Arakere

Devops consultant at Siemens Healthineers

Jan 29, 2020

The performance around the deployment feature could be improved.

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reviewer1897722

Software Developer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jun 19, 2024

Integrating workflows with other platforms can be challenging. The capabilities of these platforms sometimes fall short compared to others. Initially, it was difficult for us because the plugins were very limited.

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reviewer1540521

Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Mar 26, 2021

It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training.

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LW

reviewer1256943

DevOps Engineer at Check Point Software Technologies

Dec 30, 2019

It's a little outdated. It's three years old.

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